Griffith v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1988 · most notably 143 W. Va. 845 - Cuppett v. Neilly (1958), New York Trust Co. v. Doubleday (1956)
2 district · 24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Accounting of Brann · Goode v. Reynolds · Fidelity Title & Trust Co. v. Young · Carpenter v. Perkins · Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Hollister
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A stock dividend paid for out of surplus and distributed to stockholders does not differ from any other form of dividend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.